Facebook's social Virtual Reality platform is here!

Snap's augmented reality platform

Snapchat is launching an augmented reality platform that allows people to pin art in specific locations so other users can see it. Arts can apply to have their art featured on the platform.

TechCrunch

Snapchat plans to launch a new augmented reality art platform featuring pop artist Jeff Koons and others. It will allow art to be pinned to specific locations in augmented reality so users can see it when they hold up their phones in the right spot.

Paint in spaces around you with Virtual Reality

Augmented reality (AR) platform by Shazam

Since its inception in 1999, Shazam has been known mostly as the app that helps users identify songs and their artists. In 2015, the app branched out to include a visual-recognition function that allowed consumers to scan books and packages for special offers. Now, Shazam is taking that functionality into the third dimension with augmented reality.

UploadVR

Shazam, known for its eponymous music recognition app, has launched a new augmented reality (AR) platform for brands, artists, and users around the world. Founded in 2000, Shazam offers a mobile app that lets you identify songs playing in the background by tapping a button.

Digital Trends

You first got to know it as the app that helped you identify your music, but now, Shazam is helping you identify a whole lot more. On Monday, the app announced the launch of a new augmented reality platform for its partners, artists, and "hundreds of millions of global users."

Marketing Dive

Shazam, originally a music ID app, has grown to include more content distribution and has now launched an augmented reality platform for its brand partners per a company press release. The platform will allow brands to share marketing materials enhanced with augmented reality.

Create and play in virtual worlds with others

VRChat lets you create, publish, and explore virtual worlds with other people from around the world.

Polygon

New game obsessions are commonplace, but phenomenons that can only be described as platform or industry changing are rare occurrences; VRChat is shaping up to be one of those rarities. Developed by Graham Gaylor and Jesse Joudrey, VRChat is an amalgamation social community video games.

Windows Central

What is VRChat and how do you get started? VRChat is an online community accessible by Windows Mixed Reality (WMR), HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or just any old regular keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Available for free through Steam, it's a meeting ground where you can create your own avatar, create your own world, play games, watch movies, and just hang out as you…See more